The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.American Unitarian association, 1866 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 25 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Pàgina 252 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Pàgina 302 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Pàgina 324 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Pàgina 51 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Pàgina 190 - I will put my law in their inward parts, And write it in their hearts; And will be their God, And they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For they shall all know me, From the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: For I will forgive their iniquity, And I will remember their sin no more.
Pàgina 50 - We are holding in bondage one of the best races of the human family. The Negro is among the mildest, gentlest of men. He is singularly susceptible of improvement from abroad. . . . His...
Pàgina 154 - ... among the crowd ; every party, religious or political, scatters its sheets on all the winds. We may lament, and too justly, the small comparative benefit as yet accomplished by this agency ; but this ought not to surprise or discourage us. In our present stage of improvement, books of little worth, deficient in taste and judgment, and ministering to men's prejudices and passions, will almost certainly be circulated too freely. Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power...
Pàgina 88 - The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday. The day was chiefly spent, by the great mass of negroes, in the churches and chapels. Thither they flocked in clouds, and as doves to their windows.
Pàgina 180 - Age. In these brief words what a world of thought is comprehended ! what infinite movements ! what joys and sorrows! what hope and despair! what faith and doubt ! what silent grief and loud lament ! what fierce conflicts and subtle schemes of policy! what private and public revolutions ! In the period through which many of us have passed, what thrones have been shaken ! what hearts have bled! what millions have been butchered by their fellowcreatures ! what hopes of philanthropy have been blighted....